GALLIA ROMANA

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Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

Notice

Ville Vienne (Isère, 38)
Subject(s) Pyramid
 
Author(s) Platter, Félix
  Physician from Basel, older brother of Thomas Platter (1536-1614)
Resource type Drawing (pen and brown ink)
Date 1552
Inscription
References Platter A λ III, f. 29= Lötscher 1976, p. 139
Bibliography

Kieffer 1892 ; Pelletier 1974, pp. 6-15 ; Lötscher 1976 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 221-222 ; Le Roy Ladurie 1995 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 85-86, 96

Remarks

Félix Platter's drawing shows the obelisk, without the quadrifrons arch that constituted its base, in the margin of his manuscript. The obelisk was placed on circus' spina

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